A child in Washington, D.C., draws a "waterfall" he built with stones using the Stoneplay Work method. (Eric Schulzke, Diana Suskind) In 2011 an American educational consultant working in Kathmandu, Nepal, was flummoxed by the rote teaching she saw in her school’s classroom — with children mindlessly copying down lectures — and by the lack of resources to get beyond it. The school was too poor to buy anything. So she had the kids go to a nearby river where they collected stones of every shape, … [Read more...]